(Radio Iowa) — Eight people face federal charges in connection with a drug investigation that stretched from California to Iowa, and led to arrests in Des Moines yesterday (Thursday). Authorities searched a dozen properties in the Des Moines area and arrested six people for either buying or selling drugs.

A Los Angeles man, who’s also been arrested, is accused of sending cocaine and marijuana to Des Moines. Twenty-eight-year-old Raylon Canada, of Des Moines, is at the center of the case. A court gave authorities to monitor Canada’s phone this spring. He’s being accused of getting cocaine from California, shipped to him through the mail.

Additional customers and redistributors of controlled substances who have been charged with drug conspiracy and distribution include:
• TERIKAH MEIKETIA MAHANEY, 26, of Des Moines
• MICHELLE LEE MIRELES, 39, of Des Moines
• ERIC ELMONT BOWMAN, 33, of Des Moines
• KATARIO WADE PATTON, 48, of West Des Moines
• MARVIN HAYGOOD, JR., 33, of Des Moines
• JOSEPH MANUEL JONES, 47, of Des Moines

The charges in the complaints carry a maximum penalties of twenty years’ imprisonment.